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Bill Maher's argument for conservation over patriotic symbolism in post-9/11 America

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International conflict over oil and water resources

Throughout history, international conflicts have raged over two basic items - religion and natural resources.

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Wallace Stegner's "The American West as Living Space" and water scarcity

American West as Living Space by Wallace Stegner, Stegner discusses the West with many different angles, but always as an arid area that must be contended with. No, Stegner's book is not a prophecy of doom; it is a realistic and quite correct assessment of the "arid" West, as he calls it.

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Forest ecosystem health and restoration in America

There is a plethora of evidence from studies on environmental research to suggest that healthy forests are of vital importance to the balance in nature and ultimately for human existence.

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Scientific flaws in anthropogenic global warming theory

Global warming myth is proliferated for political purposes. Special-interest groups have wooed politicians for sponsorship, garnering increased funding for scientifically spurious endeavors.

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Global warming's effects on Canada's environment, economy, and culture

Even in Canada, one of the most legendarily frosty countries on the earth, the effects of global warming are manifest.

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Global warming's effects on crop production and rainfall patterns

As global warming makes temperatures rise witnessed will be a decrease in crop production.

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The development and scope of ethical theory and moral practice

Ethical Theory and Moral Practice developed as a cohesive field in the late twentieth century, with the establishment of the Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Journal, in 1998.

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Global desertification policy and the International Convention to Combat Desertification

According to Brown, desertification affects one billion people in more than 110 countries around the world. Since the first major droughts affected sub-Saharan Africa, the subject of desertification has been a major topic for UNCED.

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Environmental and economic impacts of banning deforestation in the United States

As a brief description to the study, deforestation pertains to the removal or eradicating forest in a particular area and then coverts the place into an urbanized community for settlement or for economical value.

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